Defending Beef Quotes

“Ironically, people who deliberately avoid beef may find it harder to avoid having their purchasing dollars funneled toward such deforestation. According to the Organic Consumers Association, soybeans from Brazil are found (unlabeled) in tofu and soy milk sold in American supermarkets. Industrialized,”
― Nicolette Hahn Niman, Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production

“[T]he human cost of soil exhaustion,” he writes, “is readily apparent in the history of regions that long ago committed ecological suicide.”8”
― Nicolette Hahn Niman, Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production

“Much of the drive for Roman conquests, Montgomery argues, was fueled by poor agricultural practices that were whittling away the productivity of the empire’s cultivated areas. Montgomery hypothesizes that exhaustion and erosion of the soil was a major factor in the fall of most once great civilizations, including the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Mayans.”
― Nicolette Hahn Niman, Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production